"Bridger Creek" Gold Mining Claim Yuba Co, CA, 40 ac, Historic Area, 2wd Access!

Description

Two adjoining placer gold mining claims on Bridger Creek
40 acres total with a 1/2 mile of creek
Great color, lots of material to work, year round 2wd access
Located in the historic Camptonville Mining District
I can offer 0% owner financing so you can mine while paying for the claims
0 down with the balance carried over 2 years at 4/month
Beat inflation, find gold, and enjoy the outdoors with a mining claim in California's Gold Country
Location and Access
These claims are located on Bridger Creek three miles from Camptonville in Yuba County, CA. Grass Valley and Nevada City are about 18 miles south. The claims are in the old Camptonville Mining District.
These are actually two adjoining claims totaling 40 acres and encompassing about ½ mile of creek.
Bullards Bar Reservoir, a great place for fishing and boating is only a few miles away.
Access is year round via a 2wd road that goes directly to the claim. There is a good camping area on the southern part of the claim.
The boundary coordinates are Upstream 39.483763 -121.097304, Downstream 39.47684
-121.097777.
The claim names are Bridger 1 and Bridger 2 and the serial numbers are CAMC322971 and CAMC322972.
History
In 1851 J. Cambell constructed a hotel between the booming Gold Rush towns of the Downieville and Nevada City. It wasn’t long until a man named Sam Whitesides who was passing through decided to sink a shaft near the place. He struck the rich ancient channel of the Yuba River and the Camptonville became a renowned mining camp in its own right. Whitesides mine was on what became Gold Ridge and other rich diggings were found on Galena Hill, Youngs Hill, and more.
Gold-quartz veins were also discovered and the local streams had been plentifully endowed with gold from the lodes and tertiary channels.
When the ban on hydraulic mining came into effect in the 1880s most of the mining in the Camptonville District ceased. Some individual prospectors continued to run drift mines through the Great Depression but today Camptonville is very quiet.
Good gold is still found in the local creeks and it is a beautiful area to prospect in.
Geology and Gold Resources
Bedrock in the district is amphibolite, slate, greenstone, and granodiorite.
During the tertiary period the Yuba River, which was much wider than the present one, coursed through the area. It was enormously rich in gold but was left high and dry with the geologic upheaval that occurred several million years ago. This channel has endowed the creeks that cut through it with a lot of gold.
I haven’t been able to track down any information on Bridger Creek specifically and it’s possible it had a another name during the Gold Rush. There is evidence of Gold Rush era mining in the creek but it doesn’t appear to have been worked much since. Bridger Creek drains Pittsburgh Hill where “exceedingly rich diggings” were discovered in 1855.
I found good amounts of fine gold while surface sampling and I think larger pieces should be closer to bedrock. Some of the gold was coarse and angular so it likely came from a nearby lode deposit.
Panning, sluicing, metal detecting, etc should all do well here. You can mine the claims year round and with a ½ mile of creek there is enough area to work for generations.
Terms
The full purchase price is ,290 and I can offer owner financing with 0 down and the balance paid at 4/month for two years with no interest. Once the down payment is made you can start mining and have mining rights throughout the payment period. When all the payments are made I will record a Quitclaim Deed with Yuba County and the Bureau of Land Management transferring ownership to your name.
I will end the listing and put the claim under contract to the first person to make the down payment.